{"id":284,"date":"2013-04-28T11:35:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T11:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buildingcube.com\/?p=284"},"modified":"2023-11-07T06:31:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T06:31:48","slug":"mounting-vmdk-files-into-host-when-in-split-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/2013\/04\/28\/mounting-vmdk-files-into-host-when-in-split-file\/","title":{"rendered":"Mounting VMDK files into host when in split file"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I usually use OSFmount for mounting files made with DD, ddrescue, dd_rescue and gddrescue, for virtual machines in vmware i can mount those directly with OSFMount as long as it is a single file disk, when the thing has multiple files, i can not do that<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turns out vmware gives a way a tool to consolidate those disks into 1 disk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>cd C:Program Files (x86)VMwareVMware Workstation<br>vmware-vdiskmanager -r c:my_in_file.vmdk -t 0 file_out.vmdk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now i can mount them directly onto my host machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note that, even the&nbsp; http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/support\/developer\/vddk\/ (The vmware vmdk development kit) which is a recent tool can not mount mutiple split disks, and requieres a single disk to mount on host<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I usually use OSFmount for mounting files made with DD, ddrescue, dd_rescue and gddrescue, for virtual machines in vmware i can mount those directly with OSFMount as long as it is a single file disk, when the thing has multiple files, i can not do that Turns out vmware gives a way a tool to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2968,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/2968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}